Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , it was possible for subjects to carry out a certain amount of integration of information even when they did not know the theme of the passage . |
| 2 | From ancient times , the significance of particular dates has survived centuries of attempts to stamp out the old pagan customs , and they are still popularly practised in many parts of the country . |
| 3 | He had called in a local firm of builders to carry out the essential brickwork , plastering and re-tiling on the roof ; after that , he took a hand in the redecoration personally , splashing on new paint and putting up wallpaper . |
| 4 | Thus , in addition to the basic meaning of ‘ constitution ’ — a document containing , at the very least , a code of rules setting out the allocation of functions , powers and duties among the various agencies and officers of government — there is a wider meaning of constitution , according to which every democratic state has a constitution . |
| 5 | Well it might just take a couple of hours to print out a complete set of statements for two hundred customers . |
| 6 | And somehow the regret in Friend 's banner of meanings cancelled out the bitter mould-taste of failure that the garden-master had cultured inside her . |
| 7 | The paper proposed for each area of the curriculum for pupils 5–14 ‘ a nationally agreed set of guidelines setting out the aims of study , the content to be covered , and the objectives to be achieved ’ . |
| 8 | He felt humiliated — apart from everything else , the soppiness of being a shop assistant in a family of miners brought out a terrible blush for his masculinity : absurd , you might think , but not so absurd if that was your world . |
| 9 | Still another set of usages leaves out the linkages through affinity . |
| 10 | Forest want an answer from Keane by the end of this week and he has asked for an extra couple of days to iron out the finer details . |
| 11 | Engage an independent consultant today ( there are still one or two good ones left ) and arrange to take your team away for a couple of days to brainstorm out a vision of success for the next two to five years . |
| 12 | There have been some impressive cases of increases in productivity , notably British Airways , British Leyland , and British Steel , which have shed workers , but it remains to be seen whether the improvement will be durable or a once-only case of firms shaking out the least efficient workers . |
| 13 | oh it , they showed you pictures of things coming out the squares |
| 14 | He said no bread would be baked this Sunday in the first of a series of one-day strikes if the 9,000 workers who produce nearly 80 per cent of loaves throw out the deal . |
| 15 | He admired gnarled oak , beeches and silver birch , but occasionally he complained bitterly about bad planting , as when looking towards Langdale from near Tilberthwaite : ‘ Langdale on the right would finish the whole into a pleasant landscape , were it not for a frightful plantation of firs blotting out the pass on Wrynose . ’ |
| 16 | What is needed is a couple of examples to bring out the difference sharply . |
| 17 | The conversion of fractions to decimals is a requirement for effective use of the calculator , and a further calculator question about the wages received for a 37½ hour week produced evidence that a number of pupils worked out the wages for a 37 hour week using the calculator and then made , or tried to make , a pencil and paper calculation for the remaining half hour 's money . |
| 18 | For two days she remained at large despite a posse of pupils carrying out an inch-by-inch search of the building . |
| 19 | Police say two crews of men carried out the work and are seeking two men in their 50s driving a red transit van and three men in their 30s driving a small van . |
| 20 | He said the case was a one-off , but he 's writing to a Government committee on the safety of medicines pointing out the potential dangers . |
| 21 | LIFESPAN uses a hierarchy of Options to carry out the required tasks , each option consisting of one or more Pages . |
| 22 | see that er paragraph three of the statement of claims sets out the history of the transaction a and pleads the relevant facts . |
| 23 | Instead he took a curtain call , and at the last minute before he was to slide behind the curtains behind the bar , he reached for the flowers thrown to him earlier and broke off some of the roses , swaggering round the circle of admirers handing out the roses to the women . |
| 24 | Different dancers have to work hard both technically and as individuals to bring out the particular qualities which Ashton saw in the original performers . |
| 25 | Critics of Indian prisons have continued for years to point out the incongruity of attempting to run an avowedly ‘ correctional ’ prison system with structures , rules and physical conditions created for quite different purposes . |
| 26 | Others crouched on their haunches and kicked out their back legs behind them , like men carrying out a complex fitness programme . |
| 27 | A hundred million pounds was advanced by the British government for tenants to buy out the farms they rented from the landlords . |
| 28 | If one works in logarithms , the relationship between y and x becomes linear : Hence , it is quite simple for accountants to work out the learning rate for their industry/firm by converting observations of y and x to logarithms and regressing log x against log y . |
| 29 | Against this background , the Threshold Foundation provided Stephen Fulder and me with funds to carry out an 18-month survey to gather information on scientific , social , education and legal aspects of complementary medicine . |
| 30 | As part of the 1993 Business Challenge , organised by the Industrial Society , schools teamed up with companies to carry out a range of special projects . |